Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab with Hathor-like Canaanite Goddess
Description
Blue glazed steatite
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
An ancient Egyptian scarab with inscriptions and motifs.
The artifact is a small scarab amulet made of faience, featuring an engraved beetle on one side and hieroglyphic inscriptions on the other. The style is typical of Egyptian amulets, used for protection and as a symbol of rebirth. The composition includes detailed carving and symmetrical design, with notable features such as a central motif that may represent a deity or symbolic representation.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
beetle
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244547 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.408 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545256 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.